S-Works McClaren Venge
Who needs a paint scheme anyway? It’s just frou-frou colors and what not. No my friends, when you go to the length’s that Specialized has gone to, to make one of the lightest UCI approved racing road bikes, even the weight of paint is an issue. And there are few bikes that get my attention these days. Everyone copying everyone else. Carbon this and that. Pretty much the same components, Shimano, Campagnolo, or Sram. Wheelsets by Mavic, or Shimano or Campagnolo. Yada-yada-yada. Specialized has done good this time around indeed. This is a beauty. Not only the fact that I am a die hard McClaren fan, not just since Lewis Hamilton began killing it on the F1 circuit, and winning in his first year in one of the most hi-tech of the auto racing world. But back to the days of the McClaren, center seated F1 inspired street car that was at the time, the epitome of hi performance. Way beyond Ferrari or Lamborghini. Stratospherically up there, if that even makes sense. Sub 950gr. What a beauty this is. A joint technical venture of the minds, so to speak. Specialized and McClaren. The frame has a tapered head/steerer tube, intergrated top cap, a one-piece bottom bracket with chain stay, a reversible/adjustable carbon seat-post, full internal cable routing, FACT carbon 3:1 airfoil fork, FEA optimized carbon layup, High modulus FACT 12R carbon. Damn Specialized, who’d have thought? S-WORKS
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